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Mr. G. 8. Brady on Ostracoda 



vestigations of the two forms have proved their identity*. 

 Quoy and Gaimard's species^ as is well known, is from the 

 Moluccas, and not from the Philippines. Gray ought there- 

 fore, at any rate, to have given this habitat also. However, 

 I do not make this observation in order to preserve a " spe- 

 cies," but because I should be sorry to lose Owen's beautiful 

 name Euplectella aspergilliimj which, in its specific denomina- 

 tion, gives a simple translation of the name " regadera," in- 

 vented by the people, and therefore certainly better charac- 

 terizes this animal than the common Latin expression " spe- 

 ciosa," or Gray's English popular name ^' Venus's Flower- 

 basket." 

 Wiirzburg, January 19, 1867. 



IV. — Contrihutions to the Study of the Entomostraca. 

 By Geokge Stewardson Bkady, C.M.Z.S. &c. 



[Plates IV. & v.] 



Under this title I propose to give, from time to time, de- 

 scriptions of new species and remarks on any other points of 

 interest connected with the Entomostraca which may chance 

 to come under my notice. 



No. I. Ostracoda from the Arctic and Scandinavian Seas. 



The specimens dealt with in the present paper have been 

 derived from mud and sand procured by the captains of 

 whalers from the Arctic seas, and from dredgings made on the 

 coast of Norway by David Robertson, Esq., of Glasgow, 

 to whom, in conjunction with the Rev. H. W. Crosskey, I 

 am indebted for the opportunity of describing the following 

 species. 



In the ^ Transactions of the Zoological Society ' I have 

 already (vol. v. 1865) described several Arctic species which 

 were obtained from Dr. Sutherland's dredgings. But the 

 nomenclature of that memoir requires rectification. I now 

 give an amended list of the species there noticed : — 



Hunde Islands, Bqffiti's Bay, 



60-70 fathoms. 

 Cy there tuberculata ( G. O. Saj's). 



emarginata (G. O. Sars). 



costata, Brady. 



septentrionahs, Brady. 



Cythere limicola (Nm-man) 

 (= C. Kreolata, Brady, he. cit.). 



angulata? {G. O. Sars) 



(= C. clathrata, var. nuda, 

 Brady, he. cit). 



Cytheridea papillosa, Bosquet. 



* Dr. Gray, in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' for 1867, has 

 not only acknowledged the distinctness of the species, but has formed of it 

 a second section of the family Euplectelladae. According to him, Alctjon- 

 cellmn speciosmn (Q. & G.) constitutes a genus distinct from E. corhicula. 



